Marvel's Kevin Feige Discusses Avengers Tower and Hulkbuster Armour in Age of Ultron

Kevin Feige has been talking about Avengers: Age of Ultron, explaining that Tony Stark is bankrolling the team in the superhero sequel, alongside revealing the new Avengers Tower features not one, but two bars, and stating the film’s Hulkbuster sequence will be “Amazing.”

The Marvel Studios supremo was in London to screen 17-minutes of Guardians of the Galaxy as well as some behind-the-scenes footage from Avengers 2.

The two-minute reel didn’t give much away, but did underline the fact that the team will be globe-trotting on this next adventure, hitting the UK, Italy and South Africa.

One thing it did feature was writer-director Joss Whedon talking about creating Avengers Tower for the movie, so we asked Feige for more details about the building post-screening...

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“Last time we saw Stark Tower, from The Avengers, it had gotten beat up a little bit thanks to Hulk and thanks to Loki and the Chituari, and Pepper and Tony were standing over a table looking at plans” he explained. “That’s where we pulled out and all the letters had fallen away except the ‘A’ in Stark. So what they were doing was retro-fitting for The Avengers. And that’s what we see in this next film.

“S.H.I.E.L.D. is gone – for people who are following along. S.H.I.E.L.D. was disbanded and brought down at the end of The Winter Soldier because it turned out to not be the best organisation ever. So Tony’s bank-rolling The Avengers now. And he’s bank-rolling their headquarters. So it’s now Avengers Tower.

“Tony designed it so in addition to a hanger for a brand-new Quinjet, laboratories, places where he can build and store his Iron Man suits, there are I believe two bars. Beautiful multiple space living rooms which are perfect for parties and social gatherings. But it’s a primary location in the film this time around.”

An early pre-production sketch for Avengers: Age of Ultron.

We also saw a brief pre-visualisation of Tony Stark in his Hulkbuster armour, going toe-to-toe with The Green Goliath. It very much played like a moving version of the above sketch, but we followed up with Feige to find out if this scene would be the movie’s money shot.

“There are a lot of scenes that you should be getting excited about” he explained. “That is certainly one of them. I think I said a long time ago when Joss [Whedon] first did his six-page or 10-page outline for Avengers, there was a lot of work and the movie’s adapted quite a bit since then, but there were like six or seven signature things just in that. I said ‘Joss, even if we don’t do anything else. Just do these seven things, that’s enough for the movie. Now let’s get to work and put it all together.’ Those things are in the movie and are amazing, of which that sequence is one.”

So sounds like there’s lots to be excited about on the Avengers front. Before then we’ve got Guardians of the Galaxy however, and you’ll be able to read our full interview with Feige on that front closer to the film’s release.

Chris Tilly is the Entertainment Editor for IGN in the UK and desperate to see Age of Ultron right now. Tilly can be found talking nonsense on both Twitter and MyIGN.

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